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Day: March 24, 2016

My friend Maria Scaperlanda posted yesterday a beautiful prayer adapted from The Book of Common Prayer. Although it is titled a Litany for the Season of Lent, it seemed to me a perfect one to pray this morning, as we ready ourselves for the Triduum liturgy which will begin this evening. Here it is:

Let us pray…

as this holy season of Lent gives way to the Holy Triduum:

Lord, have mercy

We have not loved youwith our whole heart and mind and strength:

We have not loved our neighborsas ourselves:

We have not forgivenothers as we have been forgiven:

We have been deaf to your callto serve, as Christ has served:

We confess our unfaithfulness, our pride, hypocrisy, and impatience:

We confess our envy of those more fortunate than ourselves:

For our intemperate love of worldly goods and comforts,and our dishonesty in daily life and work:

For our negligence in prayer and worship:

For our blindness to human need and suffering, and our indifference to injustice and cruelty:

For our lack of charity toward our neighbors, for prejudice and contempt toward those who differ from us:

For our waste and pollution of your creation, and our lack of concern for those who come after us: